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Creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon’s life was upended by war. In 1992, he was a 27-year-old journalist on an international visitors’ program in the United States when war broke out in his homeland of Bosnia.

Princeton Int’l spoke with Wantchekon about peaceful conflict resolution and the African School of Economics, a project helping to erase some of Africa’s colonial legacies.

Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, a 2024 graduate, and senior Nolan Musslewhite have been named 2025 Marshall Scholars to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

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Medievalist William Chester Jordan receives Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement
William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, emeritus, and the director of the Program in Medieval Studies, has received the 2024 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. He is among 10 recipients of the prize,...
LISD International Policy Associates Met Top Policymakers in Poland
During the Fall Break, the International Policy Associates (IPAs)—LISDs selective group of undergraduate pre-professional foreign policy fellows—traveled to Warsaw, Gdańsk, and Kraków to investigate recent and contemporary Polish politics. In meetings with top politicians and key stakeholders...
Writings, Designs and Responsibility: A Closer Look at Graffiti and Street Art in Pisa
By Artha Abeysinghe, This article recounts an activity that I did as part of the “Princeton in Pisa” program at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.My friend Sicile and I went around Pisa, to find and ask people what they thought of graffiti and street art. The sun was not our friend...
Blending Study with Real-World Impact
In the late 2010s, as she was finishing up her PhD work in French and francophone studies at Duke University, Sandie Blaise had an idea for a new kind of course.
Princeton grad student Julian Chehirian will exhibit at the Venice Biennale
Julian Chehirian was born in Brooklyn, the child of artists who fled Bulgaria’s political repression at the end of the 1980s, about a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After being granted asylum at the Traiskirchen refugee camp outside Vienna, they waited a year and a half for safe...
"The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen" Is a Finalist for Italy's 2024 Cherasco Award in History
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Two Princeton seniors, one Oxford student awarded Sachs Scholarship
Princeton seniors Alice McGuinness and Nathalie Verlinde and University of Oxford student Jack Nunn have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.
Progress Made on Sophisticated Sensors for the International ITER Fusion Facility
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has recently made significant progress on two crucial sensors, or diagnostics, for ITER the multinational facility under assembly in France to study plasma that can heat itself and sustain its own fusion reactions. ...
Princeton and the University of Humboldt in Berlin Renew Partnership
Humboldt University President Julia von Blumenthal and a delegation of professors and staff traveled to Princeton for two days in October to formalize another five years of collaboration between the two universities and to reflect on the impact of the partnership, which began in 2012.
‘Making the Viking Age’ in a New Princeton Humanities Course
“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about 20 minutes west of Copenhagen by train. The task at hand was to make a snelle, a small...